Is Your Home Under-Insulated?

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Signs that your home does not have enough insulation:

  1. Difficulty keeping home comfortable. Insulation helps to regulate the temperature in your home, keeping the heated or cooled air inside where it’s needed to keep the occupants comfortable. If you and your family find it difficult keeping your home cool in the summer and warm in the winter, your home is insufficiently insulated.
  2. High energy bills. Are you paying a fortune each month to heat and cool your home? When heated and cooled air leaks out of your home through floors, walls, attics, and windows, you may be running furnaces and air-conditioning systems constantly, which tdrives up the energy bill. 
  3. The presence of rodents and pests. Insulation fills in cracks, crevices and holes in attics, basements and walls, preventing unwanted critters and insects from entering the home.
  4. Frozen pipes. If your pipes freeze every time the temperature drops significantly, you need insulation. Frozen pipes not only stops the flow of water, they may burst and lead to flooding. 
  5. Ice dams. Ice dams are a common sight all over New England. These humps of ice form on the edge of roofs and cause damage not only to the roof, but inside the home as well. One sure way to fix the underlying problem that causes ice dams– properly insulation that prevents the roof from getting warm and snow from melting.

If you notice these signs, let’s talk. Greenstamp Insulation fills your walls, attics, basements, crawlspaces and garages with the most effective insulation available. You’ll notice improved comfort indoors right away and lower energy bills!

 

Retrofit to Prevent Ice Dams

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There’s still a lot of winter to go in 2022. That means, the threat of ice dams continue to pose a threat to homes. A property owner in MA chose the Greenstamp team to retrofit their single-family home with sprayfoam insulation to prevent ice dams. Smart move!

 

Ice Dam Prevention

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New England winters can be brutal, resulting in ice dams that damage not only roofs, but attics, ceilings and walls. Ice dams allow moisture to enter the home which leads to mold problems and other structural issues. In the last 10 years, Greenstamp insulated many home throughout the Boston-metro area and Cape Cod to prevent ice dams. We insulated this home featured above. In the first photo taken in 2010, ice dams are visible. In the photo, taken after the infamous 2015 “Snowmaggedon”, no ice dams have formed.